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How to do windowing scheme like this
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03/08/1999 09:43:43
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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02/08/1999 15:26:43
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00248967
Message ID:
00249193
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22
>Hi all,
>
>I like the way Paint Shop Pro handles it's windows and would like to implement it in my VFP app, but I don't see how. Here's what I want.
>
>PSP's has various "control forms" that float directly on the desktop - not within the main form - just like VFP Top Level forms. However, unlike VFP TLFs, all the forms act as part of the same application - that is - minmizing the main document form takes all the other forms with it down to one program tab on the taskbar. Also - you can not get some other application "in between" the various forms in PSP. Finally, within PSP, these control forms always stay in front of the main document form.
>
>Anybody know how to accomplish all this in VFP?

Just a WAG: at the moment you minimize your app, it should hide all the little windows, and then dodefault(). If the little windows still show on the taskbar, save their states, release them, and re-create when restored.

Though, why would they have to be top-level forms at all? Shouldn't they be just desktop?

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